DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

Technology is changing at a rapid pace, although cloud enjoys a dominant place in the IT landscape but  need of traditional in-house data centers cannot be ruled out, there are many companies who are still doing it traditional ways. Besides, companies who are already using cloud services are also maintaining a hybrid configuration, or at least a network facility which ensures close monitoring and high availability, thus in-house data centers still form an integral part of business entities.

With in-house data centers, a new term DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) is steadily gaining momentum. With this much growing potential, here is an overview of what DCIM can offer:

Majority of IT professionals are familiar with the term, infrastructural monitoring including resource evaluation from time to time, keeping a check on network latency, downtime alerts, constant network monitoring, these all attributes ensure your systems and software are up & running thus overall keeping an eye on health of your infrastructure. When we talk about DCIM, it offers data center services with all above features but with a wider range, power & capacity thus giving companies an edge.

How is DCIM different?
In traditional data centers you know that your servers are up but you don’t have concrete idea about how many servers can fit in your facility and safely manage to cool. DCIM provides broader data center hosting services, by filling these gaps. It introduces following concepts such as:

Maximizing system utilization thus resulting in improved efficiency
Well Optimizing physical infrastructure that includes space management too
Deep analysis of existing virtual systems
Consolidation of resources
Change management
Asset Tracking
Multi-tier monitoring

There are many traditional products that partially look after these areas but DCIM takes data center services to one step higher, with an intent to unify all assets with one centralized point of administration thereby bringing greater accuracy and efficiency.